Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-19
NEW YORK LETTER.
EAhY MIN WITH BIG sALARigs-wHo
THEY ARE.
theatrical Matters Mccaulls Success
Fad Treatment OF sothern-Great
Appreciation In Real Estate.

New YORK, June Is, 1897.
The editor Of one of the great dailies
took a novice into his office one day.
"Youmay COON the reportorial staff, y
lie said TO him. 1T has been my ex-
perience that money, women, and choice
foods make capital newspaper stories.
Whenever You can get story in which
money plays an important part you
have an article that will be read with
interest.
So what follows is all about money
aud the wcll-knOwn New Workers whose
rimble fingers chase the elusive dollar,
or rather thousands Of them, each year.
There are q score of men in New
York who are paid as much for their
services each year as the President of
fine United States. Forty thousand
dollars a wear is a very tidy salary,
] here are hundreds of men who get
So. 600 year salary, and the number
who get from $4,000 to $50. 900 are
legion. Very ordinary men get from
s.. C00to -, 900 q year, or as much rs a
Cabinet officer. DR.. Noryin Green,
president Of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, is paid $4,000.
50 is Chauncey NJ. Depew. pre-
sident OF the New York Central
railroad. Richard NJ McCurly. preSi-
dent OF the Mutual Liie-inSurance
Company, gets a like amount. John
Eoey. president Of Adams Express Com
pany, fares equally as well. President
HcnIy b. Hyde. of the Equitable Life
Insurance Company, is also in the list.
George G.. Williams, president OF the
Chemical National Bank, the richest
banking institution in America, with
nearly j,OC0 900 of surplus, so, 900,
OC0 average deposits, is paid a salary OF
81. 600 yearly. President Potts, OF
the Park Bank, and President Tappln,
OF the Gallatin National Bank, receive
like sum each twelve months.
THE BRsT-PAID MINISTER
in New York is DR.. John Hall, a brainy
msn from the North Of Ireland. who
breaches to $500, 600, 900 every Sunday,
Ills is the smallest church in town.
Hc owes his rise in life to Robert Bon
pCr. of the LCdgcr, who found him
preaching TO a small congregation in
dublin and induced him TO come to
America. He gets a salary of $50, COO
q wear, and makes $1,000 by his news
paper and magazine articles He Is
given luxuriously-furnished house as
well. DR.. Morgan Dix, the chief pas
tor of Trinity Church Corporation, the
wealthiest in America, receives Sl5, 900
yearly. DR.. William NJ. LAYER, OF the
Broadway Tabernacle, gets the same
amount. He does literary work and
lecturing that brings his income up to
so. 600. Dr. Charles Hall, of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church, is paid
5lj,000 BE is very eloquent, and his
church is crowded at all services. DIR.
TaIkhurst. OF Madison-Square church,
gets $4,000 He has large and dis
tin9uishod congregation. Cyrus W.
Held is one OF the pillars OF the church.
Ir Paxton, who breaches to Jay
Could and others less wealthy, Is paid
$50 The Rev. Robert Collyer, the
blacksmith preacher, is paid 80, $50.
OF THE EDITORS
Mr.. Stone. Of the JoUnW 81 COM
0i,rcc, is paid $4,000 He is the
president of the Associated Press, i'm
mensely wealthy, lives i'll Brooklyn,
and has mania for choice flowers and
plants; his collection is worth over
100000. Charles 4. Dana, editor of
the Sim, is paid So, 600 salary, but he
is also a large stakeholder in the paper,
and his income from this source is quite
SlO0.OC0. Before the paper began to
decline the sum was nearly S2O0,0OO
Whitelaw Reid, chief owner OF the
T,iLUBc. pays himself SD, 000 yearly.
He has been very fortunate in specula
ten and is said to be worth over
j .CO0,OC0 His wife is daughter of
y. Q. Mill. and has fortune OF hall
that sum in her own name. DIR. George
II. Hcpwor!h. who was at one time a
great pulpit orator, now chief OF the
UcrGid taft. is paid Sl2, 900 yearly by
James Goldcn Bennett, Julius Cham
bcrs, the managing editor OF the SAME
paper, receives $4,000. Charles Il.
Miller. the real editor OF the New York
Times. gels $4,000 a year. lie has
several assistants in editorial writing
who get from $1,000 TO $1,000. john
G. Reid, tie managing editor o! the
paper. get, GOO, and Harold Frederic,
The LONDON correspondent, 5000.
Colonel john i. CocEerill, managing
EDITOR ofthe H'Orid. gets $4,000 yearly.
He also got, "a small share Of the profits
Of the paper, making in all S2o,O
yearly. George ". Turner, the pub
Usher of ihc same paper, makes S2O.ODO
Yearly. George William Curtis Is paid
$1,000 yearly for editing Hup'r'"
UCCLW. lie does not do much work,
and for days at a time he does not 60
near the Office. lie lives in delightful
ease in great, big, roomy house on
Staten Island. Novelist Howells is
paid SO, geo for his work on Uaypcr'S
Naga.jnc, and Charles Dudley Warner
Just half the sum for his humorous
work on the same monthly. Richard
Watson Glider gets Sll,0OO for editing
the CcHtuIY N0ga,juc.
OK THE PHYSICIANS
Or. Ferdyce Barker probably makes
the largest income. lis reputation rs
Il consulting physician stands very
high. He is said to make from So,
0GO to 100000 each year. DIR. A. l..
LOOMS, a specialist on throat and lung
troubles, makes about $50, 900. DR.. j.
T. Metcalf makes about the same
amount. DIR. l.. \. Sayre, the great
surgeon who mended John l.. Sulli-
vans broken arm, makes $4,000. DIR.
A. jacob, who dcvOtes himself entire
w TO the diseases of children, makes
$4,000 DR.. c. r. Agnew, who makes
the eye a speciality, clears SO, 600 year
w. DR.. George T. Shrady, who at
tended General Grant so faithfully, has
an income of SO, 900. DIR. Herman
Knapp, an eye-specialist, receives
about S25, COO
The legal profession is very remune-
rative. Colonel Bob Ingersoll and
Roscoe Conkling are both said TO be
making over 500, ZOO a year. Joseph
II. Choate makes considerably over
that. So does Senator Evarts. There
IRE hundreds Of lawyers who make
from $4,000 to 100000 yearly; and
the number who make from $4,000 to
$50, 600 would fill a column.